• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.454-458
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• 2008

It can improve human being's life quality that all people can have more convenient medical service under pervasive computing environment. For a pervasive health care application for diabetes patient, we've implemented a health care system, which is composed of three parts. Various sensors monitor both outer and inner environment of human such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and glycemic index, etc. These sensors form zigbee based sensor network. And medical information server accumulates sensing values and performs back-end processing. To simply transfer these sensing values to a medical team is a low level's medical service. So, we've designed a new service model based on back propagation neural network for more improved medical service. Our experiments show that a proposed healthcare system can give high level's medical service because it can recognize human's context more concretely.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.34-41
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• 2008

There are many researches to build up ubiquitous environment by the Ubiquitous Sensor Network(USN). These applications, such as home network, health care, natural environment and agricultural areas, are implemented by an embedded system. Their fields are gradually spreading. However the power consumption in its implementation plays an important role on the surrounding environment of the wireless network. In this paper, we design low power processor based sensor node platform for agricultural applications. We also compare its some performance with existing products.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.826-828
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• 2007

건강과 복지에 대한 사람들의 관심이 증대함에 따라 고령층 인구를 중심으로 병원에서 건강 점검 및 진료가 이루어졌던 기존의 Health산업 패러다임에서 연령층에 관계없이 언제, 어디서나 진료를 받을 수 있는 u-Health산업 패러다임으로 변화하고 있다. 이러한 흐름에 발맞추어 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서 혈압, 맥박, 심전도 등과 같은 의료정보뿐만 아니라 일상생활에서 획득한 정보를 통해 건강증진, 질병예방, 진료를 가능하게 하는 u-LifeCare 의료체계가 필요하다. u-LifeCare 를 지원하는 미들웨어는 유비쿼터스 환경에서 필수적인 기술 요소인 센서 네트워크 미들웨어와 상황인지 미들웨어를 통합하는 미들웨어이며, 라이프케어의 특성을 고려한 '초경량(LightWeight)의, 확장성(Scalability)있는, 보안성(Security)을 갖춘' 미들웨어이다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1826-1829
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• 2005

Recent advancement in wireless communications and electronics has enabled the development of low power sensor network. Wireless sensor network are often used in remote monitoring control applications, health care, security and environmental monitoring. Wireless sensor networks are an emerging technology consisting of small, low-power, and low-cost devices that integrate limited computation, sensing, and radio communication capabilities. Sensor network platform for health care has been designed, fabricated and tested. This system consists of an embedded micro-controller, Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver, power management, I/O expansion, and serial communication (RS-232). The hardware platform uses Atmel ATmega128L 8-bit ultra low power RISC processor with 128KB flash memory as the program memory and 4KB SRAM as the data memory. The radio transceiver (Chipcon CC1000) operates in the ISM band at 433MHz or 916MHz with a maximum data rate of 76.8kbps. Also, the indoor radio range is approximately 20-30m. When many sensors have to communicate with the controller, standard communication interfaces such as Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) or Integrated Circuit ($I^{2}C$) allow sharing a single communication bus. With its low power, the smallest and low cost design, the wireless sensor network system and wireless sensing electronics to collect health-related information of human vitality and main physiological parameters (ECG, Temperature, Perspiration, Blood Pressure and some more vitality parameters, etc.)

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.821-827
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 만성질환을 갖고 있으면서도 일상생활을 하고 있는 만성질환 환자의 응급상황에 대비할 수 있는 u-Health 시스템 구축에 대하여 논한다. USN과 전자청진기, GPS, CDMA 그리고 RFID로 구성된 PHC(Personal Health Care) 장치에 의해 환자의 위급상황이 감지되면 위치정보를 포함한 문자메시지를 병원과 보호자의 모바일 단말기로 전송하여 즉각 대처할 수 있도록 한다. 특히 유비쿼터스 센서로 구성된 기울기/가속도 센서와 진동센서로 부터 수신되는 신호패턴을 분석하여 기절현상 또는 발작 증상과 같은 응급상황 여부를 판단한다. 이 시스템을 항상 주의가 필요한 만성질환자에게 적용시킴으로써 응급 상황에 신속히 대처하여 귀중한 생명을 구할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.870-873
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 지그비 기반의 유비쿼터스 케어 관리(U-Care Management) 시스템을 설계하였다. 이 시스템은 운동처방을 받아 체계적으로 운동할 때 발생하는 운동 이력 정보를 누적 관리하여 질병을 예방하도록 지원한다. 이 시스템은 자신의 운동 이력 및 건강 정보를 웹페이지를 통하여 확인할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라, 휴대폰을 이용하여 환자들에게 운동 치료에 관한 내용을 통보하여 준다.

• The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.149-159
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• 2013

There are rapidly increasing in the number of SNS users according to quick supply of smart phones and expansion of wireless internet services, but there is no much researches on hospital promotion using SNS. In this paper, we proposed methods for development of effective hospital promotion by investigating current status of homepages, mobile web contents and SNS operated in 21 dermatology hospitals located at Seoul city and by analyzing contents according to functions as hospital promotion media. In the investigation results, all of three contents such as homepage, mobile web content and SNS are opened in 76.1% of hospitals and external companies occupied the main management body of the three contents at the largest portion(56.2%). There are hospital information, clinic, reservation in all hospitals' homepages and followed by broadcasting(90.5%), medical treatment(85.7%), consultation information(80.9%), member information in 'mypage'(42.9%), staff information(14.3%). In the analysis results, there is need to enlarge departments or staffs taking full charge of in order to manage the three contents professionally and also there is need to prepare and conduct hospital promotion methods using prevalent SNS.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.237-242
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• 2014

Integrated health care system, which is one of the developing solution technologies of IT, BT and NT, could give us new medical environments in future. Health care is one of the most concerned fields in convergence environments. Many studies on the development and application related with health care industry in recent years has been actively. Therefore, in this paper, we described current integrated medical system trends and future works.

• Journal of Animal Environmental Science
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.57-62
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• 2014

It is very important, if necessary, to remotely monitor and control the body conditions and behavior of livestock as well as the environment of stall using ubiquitous ict, in order to improve the health and productivity of livestock. With the aim of developing a stall management system, this study investigated users' needs, analyzed them to design systems, developed a web-system and an app for stall management, then applied them to a test-bed. The use of the app developed will make it easy for livestock farmers to easily monitor and control environment of stall using their smartphones and allow them to take care of stall more efficiently.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 2007

The ubiquitous computing system is expected to be widely utilized in digital home, logistics control, environment/disaster management, medical/health-care services and other applications. The ubiquitous sensor network (USN) is a key infra-structure of this system. Nodes in the USN are exposed to adverse environments and required to perform their missions with very limited power supply only. Also the sensor network is composed of much more nodes. In case some node consumes up its power capacity under a certain required level, the network topology should change and re-routing/ re-transmission of data is necessitated. Resultantly communication protocols studied for conventional wireless networks or ad-hoc networks are not suitable for the sensor network. Schemes should be devised to control the efficient usage of node power in the sensor network. This paper proposes a routing algorithm to enhance the efficiency of power consumption for USN node and analyzes its performance by simulation.